Hi everybody, you'll have to excuse my ignorance - I have no knowledge of any of this but am becoming quite concerned about my baby. He is going to be one in a few weeks and his development doesn't seem right to me. I've avoided comparing with my first baby until now, thinking that they're two different children, but the differences by this age are now very obvious.
I've realised over the past few days that he doesn't really attempt to communicate at all. He hasn't said any words yet, doesn't gesture, no pointing, waving or clapping. He is a classic 'easy baby'. He's incredibly quiet, though does do baby babbling. He will copy a few sounds if I do them, but nothing word-like. He does react to his name and to the word 'no', but nothing else. He doesn't like other people very much and his favourite thing to do is sit alone and leaf through books. Thinking about it, he's never attempted to get anything across to me or give me anything. Other 'red flags' I've read about seem OK - he smiles, laughs, reacts to my facial expressions etc.
I know it's very early days yet, I suppose I'm looking for a bit of reassurance or similar stories. My first port of call will be to contact the health visitor. He didn't 'pass' the communication or personal-social areas of his ten month check and they told me to contact them if no progress was made within six weeks. He doesn't seem to have progressed at all for months - still seems very much like a young baby compared to other children his age.
Is the health visitor a good place to start? Mine hasn't filled me with confidence so far, she gave me some really bad advice at our first visit and they've recently made a cock up and clearly mixed up my records with another family's, so I'm a bit wary.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
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